Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and writer whose name appears in the formal record of psilocybin-containing fungi. Kew’s Species Fungorum lists Psilocybe azurescens Stamets & Gartz as published in 1995 in the journal Integration, with a holotype collected by Stamets (Species Fungorum). His book Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World was first published by Ten Speed Press in 1996 (Open Library).
His name also turns up in the history of claims about ancient mushroom use. The Mexican mycologist Gastón Guzmán, discussing the Tassili rock paintings in Algeria, noted that an earlier guess by Stamets about which species they might show came without a stated source; Guzmán’s own suggestion rested on habitat, not on anything visible in the art (Guzmán, 2012).
For a living person, this glossary sticks to documented public work. A species name tells you who described a fungus and where the type specimen is kept. It does not tell you anything about strength, effects or safety, and the site does not use any author’s work as a guide to finding or identifying mushrooms.
Sources
- Species Fungorum: Psilocybe azurescens Stamets & Gartz
- Open Library: Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (1996)
- Guzmán, 2012, Acta Botanica Mexicana 100
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